lacan in A Sentence

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    Lacan's thoughts on psychosis caused me to interpret less and to listen more.

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    Jacques Lacan is not a name that comes up often when treating survivors of trauma, but he should be.

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    While Lacan was a practicing psychoanalyst, in the United States his work initially received greater acclaim among critical theorists and other academicians.

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    Lacan's most fundamental concept is that we are born into language, and it is language which structures both our conscious and unconscious thoughts.

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    Giving yearly seminars in Paris from 1953 to 1981, Lacan influenced many leading French intellectuals in the 1960s and the 1970s, especially those associated with post-structuralism.

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    Blending Freud and Saussure, the French(post)structuralist Jacques Lacan applied structuralism to psychoanalysis and, in a different way, Jean Piaget applied structuralism to the study of psychology.

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    The term appeared in the works of French anthropologist Claude Lévi-Strauss and gave rise in France to the"structuralist movement," which influenced the thinking of other writers such as Louis Althusser, the psychoanalyst Jacques Lacan, as well as the structural Marxism of Nicos Poulantzas, most of whom disavowed themselves as being a part of this movement.

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    As Lacanian psychoanalyst Bruce Fink says,“delusional activity, when it is allowed to run its course rather than being silenced by a therapist's intervention, eventually leads-- and this process may well take years-- to the construction of what Lacan calls a‘delusional metaphor,' a new starting point on the basis of which the psychotic establishes the meaning of the world and everything in it.”.

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